Identify and examine their own values, attitudes, and spirituality by considering societal responsibilities for others in need.
             Throughout all of my reading I have done a lot of thinking. Mainly thinking about what I believe is the right decision or view on topics. Reviewing this topic of social work values brought me to chapter 3. I read about how social workers are to be "culturally sensitive" to others beliefs upon many different ways of life. I want to examine values, attitudes, and spirituality. A social worker must understand his or her own self before he or she can help other people with their own problems or concerns.
             Should abortion be legal? Are gay and lesbian marriages right? Is it okay to have one nation under God on our country's currency? These are all questions that I can quickly answer. I can answer them because I have already established a set of values that I follow in life. Some questions may be hard even though my values have already bee established. Values are the key to making decisions. What my values are will determine how I handle and take a stance on a given situation. I am sure this a very hard aspect of being a social worker, because many of the things that I have read about that social workers are obligated to do I do not believe in. I wonder how I would make a decision in those cases.
             The next aspect is attitudes. I really couldn't find any straight up answers to attitudes that should be given, but I know that the attitudes I form and show will be a result of my values, which have already been formed. The attitude, in my opinion, is how I display myself through actions or words after a situation has been handed to me. It is important to help all people and your reaction could be the result of them getting better or worse. So sensitivity is defiantly the key.
             The last is spirituality. This should be handled with the greatest care, in my judgment. Base
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